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Visual Dashboards for Self-Service BI

About this paper

There’s a new kind of business intelligence tool in town: visual data discovery. It’s more visual, agile and smarter than traditional BI solutions. With it, companies mine their data better and outgun their competitors.

This paper describes how visual data discovery can provide business users direct access to data, remove IT as a bottleneck and support business agility. You’ll learn:

How to use visualizations to reduce the time to insight.

The role of dashboards for easy exploration.

Best practices in visual perception.

How to improve performance with in-memory processing.

About SAS

SAS is the leader in analytics. Through innovative analytics, business intelligence and data management software and services, SAS helps customers at more than 83,000 sites make better decisions faster. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.